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Lisa Lurie, one of the Cancer Be Glammed co-founders, on left, and Allderdice teacher Julie Farber, who with her top jewelry students in partnership with Pittsburgh-based website Cancer Be Glammed, paired the students with women coping with cancer in order to craft pieces of jewelry for them. Women were given their personalized jewelry May 4 at a gathering at the Summerset at Frick Park Community Center. (Photo courtesy of Paul Firemen)
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An estimated 805,600 women will be diagnosed with some sort of cancer this year in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. And 79,560 of them, almost 10 percent, will be in Pen...
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Demolition of the fire-ravaged Burton Hirsch Funeral Home on Murray Avenue is finally underway, but has met yet another snag that will delay the ultimate razing of the building.
The contractor hire...
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A statewide coalition of Jewish, Catholic and business leaders is working the phones and Internet to drum up support for a tax credit that provides educational opportunities for thousands of Jewish...
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Congregation Beth Shalom is offering one year of free religious school to all new students enrolling this coming year. And if the family is new to Beth Shalom, the Conservation congregation will of...
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A state House committee last week passed a bill that would divest state funds of companies with ties to Iran or Sudan, but added new language guiding how the state should reimburse any losses to th...
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Women with breast cancer who feel either angry or abandoned by God are more depressed and exhibit worse overall mental health than those who maintain a more positive religious or spiritual outlook,...
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Rare Torah commentaries? Check. The Complete Works of Shakespeare? Check. Prayer books in Hebrew and Russian? Check. Dr. Seuss? Check.
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In “Everything is Illuminated,” Jonathan Safran Foer says Jews have a sixth sense: memory.
“The Jew is pricked by a pin and remembers other pins,” Foer writes. “It is only by tracing the pinprick b...
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Have you ever imagined a klezmer band that includes Mel Brooks, Don Ho, Soupy Sales and Bobby McFerrin?
No, of course you haven’t. But it gives you an idea what to expect from the latest CD by Cle...
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As Jews from around the world come to Israel, the country has learned to incorporate Americans, Russians and Ethiopians into its society.
That’s why Ami Nahshon believes the country is now up to th...
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Students returning to Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh next month will find things have changed while they were away enjoying their summer recess.
Not only will the school itself look somewhat differen...